St John Ogilvie Primary School

Happy March 🌷!

The children had a full week this week; World Book Day, Saint John Ogilvie Feast Day and our tip to the zoo!

“I liked learning about the 8 times table” – Ishaan

“I liked building a zoo using Lego” – Mahathi

“I liked reading Horton Hears a Who!” – Lilly

“I liked learning about water bears” – Lewis

See below for some photo highlights of our week and our zoo trip. All children had the option of being in a photo, some children opted out of being in group photos etc.

Dear Readers,

We hope you have all had a great World Book Week!📚📚📚📚📚

In our school, World book Week is one of the most important weeks of the academic year and this time it included the Feast of our Patron Saint, Saint John Ogilvie, which made it even more special!

The highlights this week were many so here are just some of them:

• Reading, watching and exploring the book ‘Horton hears a Who’. We have completed many World Book Week activities linked to it like a collection of the many rhymes of the book, a Reading Comprehension about the book, a Poster designed to find the missing Whos from the book and even Maths and Numeracy games. It was all very enjoyable.
• Learning again about the story of Saint John Ogilvie, his life and the miracles God has performed through his intercession.
• Preparing for Mass in honour of St John Ogilvie by learning new beautiful hymns and practising them over and over.
• Drafting our bookmarks with positive quotes about reading which were then perfected to be gifted to Primary 3A.
• Having been visited by Heriot Watt Student Ambassadors who came to help us with the planning of our future Eco School Models and who also came to guide us and make us think about how to create a good Bug Hotel from a given material. It was very interesting and at the end we all got to go to the Woodlands to leave our Bug Hotels in the best possible spots.
• Going to the Woodlands to prepare our activity for the parents and carers next week. No spoilers here.😂
• Preparing other things for parents and carers next week – No spoilers.🤣

We would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate of the week, Mr Aaron, for setting a great example on how to follow the school rules!🥇👏Well done!✨

Congratulations also to The Cursed Child table children for making it win again! Super duper work! 🏆😃 It would be lovely to have the other tables trying their hardest to win as well!

It’s all for now, we hope you have enjoyed reading about our week and have a great weekend!😀

P5A and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Hello P6A families,

We had a busy week all things Horton Hears A Who. We have listed the activities we got up to below with photo examples:

– We listened to the rap version of the book online and summarised the main ideas and themes of the book. We all then got a page of the book and planned our own song/rap. Some groups even went to other classes to perform.

– We went to the woodlands to make dens for the ‘Who’s’ to live in.

– We identified items outside with magnifying glasses to use as our own ‘spec’ and created art work, paying close attention the detail.

– We created travel advertisement posters about why you should visit Whoville.

This week we have been taking part in our school book week. We have been doing lots of activities based on the book ‘Horton Hears A Who’. We went up to the woodland to look for small things with the magnifying glasses and had some fun trying to find a Who! We also did lots of work on rhyming words and made a graph of our favourite characters. As part of our learning in RE, we made compliment flowers and we made our friends smile. We took part in the infant area Book Battle, where we had to vote each day for our favourite book.

On Wednesday, we went to St Peter’s to take part in morning Mass. Everyone commented on how respectful we were and Mrs McKissack gave us all a special sticker.

On World Book Day, we took part in a live read and draw along with Raahat Kaduji. We concentrated so well and produced some excellent illustrations. In the afternoon, the bell kept ringing and we had to Drop Everything and Read. We thought it was really fun!

On Friday, we celebrated the Feast Day of St John Ogilvie. We went to Mass in the hall and we were once again very respectful. After break we had a special treat and we got to watch Horton Hears a Who on the big screen with our buddies.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Tyler F – I enjoyed choosing my own learning.

Maja – I enjoyed making cards.

Leah – I enjoyed Outdoor Learning.

Joseph – I enjoyed playing with the ping pong balls.

Alfie – I enjoyed doing the Book Battle.

Peyton – I enjoyed playing with the sharks.

Congratulations to Bella who is our Reading Champion this week and to Joseph who won our Hot Chocolate Award.

P3A had a FANTASTIC school trip to the zoo today as part of our learning about endangered animals.  I hope you enjoy the photos that have captured the fun we had.

Thank you to Vivien, Laura, Diana and Lina who helped me compose the pic collages on the bus journey home.

Dear Readers,

We hope you have all had a good week and are getting ready for your weekend.

In P5A we have been super busy, as always.These are the highlights of our week:

• Super learning about decimal numbers and fractions. The whole class are completely addicted to fractions and are always asking for more and more work! It’s amazing!
• Excellent note taking skills. As children are now much more used to taking notes from clips and texts, we have learned all about the BBC Microbit, which we are going to use for our Climate Smarter program, and they have taken notes which they then used to write their Information reports on the next day. So proud!😊
• Learning about inference in a picture or a text and answering to many inferential questions about pictures. The children have given some very good answers to most of them and could always explain why they have given those answers.
• Free Writing Friday is one of the weekly favourites, especially when followed by some boys and girls kindly sharing their stories. Today’s stories were hilarious and the whole class laughed and laughed!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
• Learning more about wood and why it is the most environmentally friendly building material.🌳🌳🌳🌳
• Looking at the pictures of the winning models of last year’s Climate Smarter challenge and starting to think about the features we would like our own models to have.
• Our New Spelling Words and spelling assessment which have had great scores!
• Learning about the differences in the narratives of Matthew, Mark and Luke when describing the Temptation of Jesus in the Bible. The children were very surprised at how much information Matthew and Luke had as opposed to Mark, who briefly writes about it without any detail.
• We would like to congratulate Ben, our Hot Chocolate of the week for an absolutely remarkable week during which he has set an amazing example on how to follow the school rules! Well done, Ben!👏👏👏🥇 Ben realised that when he puts his mind to being amazing, he is amazing!
• Congratulations again to our Cursed Child Table for their victory! Well done! 👏👏👏✨🏆 Hopefully next week others will follow their example and take the cup!
• Finally, many congratulations to our Kindness Champions: Ailsa 👏🥇, Sophia 👏🥈 and Aaron👏🥉, always ready to help and assist you in any need!

We say goodbye for now hoping you have enjoyed our post,

P5A and Mrs Valente 😘😘

We have been learning all about sharks this week during Topic. We learned lots of facts and we labelled a diagram to show the parts of a shark. We used our cutting skills to make our very own sharks.

This week we have been learning the sound ‘th’. This is a cheeky sound and we have to remember to stick our tongues out. We have been reading words with this sound and trying the write words too. In writing, we wrote an information report about sharks and we had to remember to use the words have, can and are.

In maths, we have been playing lots of games to practise paying for things with different coins. Miss Stebbing was very impressed with the confidence of some people who were able to make amounts by using their number bonds.

For Outdoor Learning, we spent some time at the Outdoor Classroom. We also measured the length of the longest shark using a piece of string. It was very long!

In RE, we coloured in a picture about the creation story.

On Friday, we had an assembly where the Reader Leaders told us all about our School Book Week and World Book Day celebrations. Mrs McKissack then talked to us about the Stations of the Cross and we were very respectful when we were saying the prayers.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Dawid – I enjoyed playing outside.

Eliza – I enjoyed reading Stick Man.

Daisy – I enjoyed making the sharks.

Maja – I enjoyed playing with the under the sea toys.

Ollie – I enjoyed playing with the plus plus pieces.

Zuraib – I enjoyed playing outside.

Miss Stebbing – I was very impressed with how confidently everyone recalled facts about sharks.

Congratulations to Dawid who is this week’s Hot Chocolate winner.